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Article: John Stuart Mill and India.
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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by Lynn Zastoupil. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1994. viii, 280 pp. $39.40 U.S.
India gets but passing mention in John Stuart Mill's autobiography yet he spent thirty-five years working in the East India Company's home establishment. Initiated by his father into their service in 1823, John Stuart Mill hung on at Leadenhall Street until the company was wound up in 1858. He spent much of this time preparing the "political" dispatches sent to India to regulate relations between the company and the independent and nominally independent Indian states scattered throughout the subcontinent. Mill scholars have, however, generally overlooked or downplayed ...